From NBC29:
Protestors, angry with the way Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has tried to make his case, rallied on grounds at the University of Virginia Friday afternoon.
Only one small problem…..
Turnout was smaller than expected, as just a few people showed up. Organizers put the rally together to express the viewpoint of some students and faculty. They say the actions of Cuccinelli could have severe ramifications on the academic world.
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The protest organizer, shown below, doesn’t inspire confidence, especially when you listen to what he has to say. Where’s Bill McKibben when you need him?
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Ya know? It just occurred to me that the whole gathering was really an Onion kinda spoof.
What better way to lampoon Mann than to pretend to support him, and use a questionable organizer too boot?
Raising rhetoric and sarcasm to a high art …
Dr. Ray Stantz(Dan Aykroyd) says: “Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn’t have to produce anything! You’ve never been out of college! You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve WORKED in the private sector. They expect RESULTS.” … from “Ghostbusters!”…Truth funnier than fiction!
I REALLY liked the music video of Mann’s Hide the Decline. Oh, well . . .
When the “research” results are false, misleading, and possibly dishonest, that scientist is no longer doing real research and has broken the contract that he will spend his time and grant funds on real work, not political propaganda. In which case it is time indict and convict the “researcher” and retrieve the public funds.
Pascvaks,
. . . . and behind every professor with a bone to pick . . . is . . . . a bone supplier.
The bone supplier business is one of the real high growth areas in our economy. Are their main customers in academia and at the bureaucracies which dispense government grants for research?
Shall we go down the “bone supplier” rabbit hole. I am shuddering at the thought.
John
Henry chance says:
“2 years ago we all observed the explosion named the mortgage bubble. Part of the bubble came from mortgage application fraud. People went for loans and provided false financial info. Loans were approved based on false information.”
Actually it went on from about 2000 through 2007, and both parties were into it up their eyeballs. I suspect Hank Paulson’s bailouts were largely to cover the real estate/banking-related investments of senators, congressmen, their staffs, and, of course, Mr. Paulson himself, and the Bush family too. Obama, who got a rigged loan from Countrywide, blames Bush, and Republicans blame Obama, but they were all complicit. And millions of people who got liar teaser loans in hopes of flipping properties or perpetually refinancing them for cash were equally guilty.
Now that the real estate bubble has exploded, it is being replaced with the carbon trading flim-flam, with many of the very same players, including Paulson, Obama, Goldman Sachs, Geithner, and the usual Wall Street criminals. I think the potential profits are too huge for any of them to back down just because skeptics have the better science on their side. How many financiers, investors, and politicians are capable of taking the high road, when the low one is paved in trillions for absolutely nothing in return?
D. King: Please don’t use the word “denier”; it is worse than using the “N” word to describe a black man; worse than calling someone a Nazi.
Thanks!
Just staged a protest down here in Oz and the first term Labor Govt (like Dimmocrats) is now facing a hung parliament. You’ll recall Labor was led by none other than Kevin07, a ‘Friend of the Chair’ at Copenhagen and a promoter of Oz’s very own Carbon Profiteering Rorts Scheme. With friends like that who needs enemies and with his Obama like approval rating (Mr 75% originally) plummetting, he was sacked by the faceless union men back in June and replaced by Deputy PM Julia Gillard. In an unprecedented fall from grace this L-Plate Govt has lost power after one term(only repeated once before in the 1930s) Although not absolutely certain until final counting, the conservatives are most likely back in power with the help of independant members. We’re partying on .
[snip just a bit OTT]
An AGW-related (distant relation; 3rd cousin) protest and no snow and ice? I’m shocked! Shocked! What were they thinking?!?
Don’t ya’ll worry none about the number of protesters. There were 45,000 protesters at another rally just under 1200 kilometers away, so when the gridded data comes out, we’ll find that there were actually 13,500 at this protest.
The kid says profs are free to research anything they want…. well, that’s true in a theoretical and trivial way, but the whole tenure system insures that nobody with heterodox leanings gets into a “reputable” position. Thus the “reputable” people are in fact researching anything they want, but the only things they want to research are within the bounds of orthodoxy (and the bounds of grant availability) in their discipline.
This may be why the only academics who can see the truth about climate are geologists, physicists and engineers. They were also selected for orthodoxy, but they were not selected for climate orthodoxy, thus their vision in this field is clearer.
CRS, Dr.P.H says
Athlete says:
August 20, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Five lousy stinking protesters? How is Mike going to hide this decline?
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He’ll use his Nature trick, obviously!
I don’t think Mike’s Nature trick can hide a decline so severe. I think he’ll probably have to stoop to using upside down Tiljander.
Plus? No dandruff.
After years of exposure to science fiction like The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and forward to the modern stuff like Alien Nation…
I try to picture an “alien invader” trying to subvert human civilization and transform it into something easier to dominate by “working from within” while posing as a human, with just enough makeup to pass as needed, then I look at that “protest organizer” and think…
Yup, just what we need around here, another conspiracy theory.
🙂
I am tempted to give these kids a pass. It is often hit-and-miss when you try to organize an impromptu rally, no matter the cause. The risk is that few if any one other than the organizers bother to show up.
Form is never fully transparent to content. Form matters. For example other websites offer wonderful content that is comparable to WUWT. However WUWT has a far bigger audience. WUWT is such a success because it is a great website – period. Anthony Watts and team are, first and foremost, masters of form.
What does this have to do with this post? Well, the content here is the naive (and possibly afflicted) young protester talking gibberish.
The form is photography. It is not only a person, it is an image. It is an image of a pale, bald, emaciated looking man. This image activates projections of shadowy subconscious content. Pick your example of the psychologically enslaved pale, bald, emaciated man:
Colonel Kurtz, Gollum, or how about the enslaved Keanu Reeves character in the Matrix…
http://filmbender.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/06/movie_the_matrix_keanu_reeves_pod.jpg
Speaking ill of a person because of their appearance is, quite properly, taboo. Of course the taboo protects and conceals the dark poles of reality.
Anyway, I go to far. But I wonder if, respectfully, the prominance in this post of the image of young Mister McElveen also goes too far….
Chris in Norfolk, be careful about commenting on Tim Tebow’s haircut. Paste in:
backporch.fanhouse.com/2010/08/07/tim-tebow-victim-of-rookie-hazing-gets-fantastic-haircut/
Whether smooth or hirsute,
His argument gets the boot.
Seems to me the story isn’t the hapless kid, its that the court said it would issue a written ruling within 10 days. That’s tres cool!
“Colonel Kurtz” was not exactly what you should call emaciated.
As for the bald kid, i guess he is from Remulak, a small town in France.
RockyRoad says:
August 21, 2010 at 8:24 am
D. King: Please don’t use the word “denier”; it is worse than using the “N” word to describe a black man; worse than calling someone a Nazi.
Thanks!
Sorry! Understood.
Did not mean to offend.
Robert says:
August 21, 2010 at 11:19 am
“Colonel Kurtz” was not exactly what you should call emaciated.
In the book man, in the book….
That would be the one called Heart of Darkness by a little known author named Joseph Conrad ….. 🙂
So I guess that academic freedom includes allowing professors to engage in what clearly seems to be fraudulent activities fabricating data by bending the facts hiding the decline and distorting entire periods to fit their pet hypothesis… usually it would be fine if the academics policed their own however when the public purse is adversely and significantly impacted by said professors allegedly and apparent fraudulent works it’s clearly time to take appropriate fraud control actions from outside the university against said professor(s).
@ur momisugly dkkraft
I know, but when asked to form an image i could be not be helped but thinking of Marlon Brando.
I just viewed a Harry Potter movie. Anyone notice the leader’s resemblance to Voldemort?
Merrick says:
August 21, 2010 at 6:21 am
Chris – I’m 99% certain Lubos statement wasn’t a reference to testerone lev els.
It was just a joke.
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I fully well knew that. I was just playing along a bit.
Chris